high | noun (n.) An elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven. |
| noun (n.) People of rank or high station; as, high and low. |
| noun (n.) The highest card dealt or drawn. |
| superlative (superl.) Elevated above any starting point of measurement, as a line, or surface; having altitude; lifted up; raised or extended in the direction of the zenith; lofty; tall; as, a high mountain, tower, tree; the sun is high. |
| superlative (superl.) Regarded as raised up or elevated; distinguished; remarkable; conspicuous; superior; -- used indefinitely or relatively, and often in figurative senses, which are understood from the connection |
| superlative (superl.) Elevated in character or quality, whether moral or intellectual; preeminent; honorable; as, high aims, or motives. |
| superlative (superl.) Exalted in social standing or general estimation, or in rank, reputation, office, and the like; dignified; as, she was welcomed in the highest circles. |
| superlative (superl.) Of noble birth; illustrious; as, of high family. |
| superlative (superl.) Of great strength, force, importance, and the like; strong; mighty; powerful; violent; sometimes, triumphant; victorious; majestic, etc.; as, a high wind; high passions. |
| superlative (superl.) Very abstract; difficult to comprehend or surmount; grand; noble. |
| superlative (superl.) Costly; dear in price; extravagant; as, to hold goods at a high price. |
| superlative (superl.) Arrogant; lofty; boastful; proud; ostentatious; -- used in a bad sense. |
| superlative (superl.) Possessing a characteristic quality in a supreme or superior degree; as, high (i. e., intense) heat; high (i. e., full or quite) noon; high (i. e., rich or spicy) seasoning; high (i. e., complete) pleasure; high (i. e., deep or vivid) color; high (i. e., extensive, thorough) scholarship, etc. |
| superlative (superl.) Strong-scented; slightly tainted; as, epicures do not cook game before it is high. |
| superlative (superl.) Acute or sharp; -- opposed to grave or low; as, a high note. |
| superlative (superl.) Made with a high position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate, as / (/ve), / (f/d). See Guide to Pronunciation, // 10, 11. |
| verb (v. i.) To hie. |
| adverb (adv.) In a high manner; in a high place; to a great altitude; to a great degree; largely; in a superior manner; eminently; powerfully. |
| verb (v. i.) To rise; as, the sun higheth. |
nigh | adjective (a.) In a situation near in place or time, or in the course of events; near. |
| adjective (a.) Almost; nearly; as, he was nigh dead. |
| superlative (superl.) Not distant or remote in place or time; near. |
| superlative (superl.) Not remote in degree, kindred, circumstances, etc.; closely allied; intimate. |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To draw nigh (to); to approach; to come near. |
| prep (prep.) Near to; not remote or distant from. |
weigh | noun (n.) A corruption of Way, used only in the phrase under weigh. |
| noun (n.) A certain quantity estimated by weight; an English measure of weight. See Wey. |
| verb (v. t.) To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up; as, to weigh anchor. |
| verb (v. t.) To examine by the balance; to ascertain the weight of, that is, the force with which a thing tends to the center of the earth; to determine the heaviness, or quantity of matter of; as, to weigh sugar; to weigh gold. |
| verb (v. t.) To be equivalent to in weight; to counterbalance; to have the heaviness of. |
| verb (v. t.) To pay, allot, take, or give by weight. |
| verb (v. t.) To examine or test as if by the balance; to ponder in the mind; to consider or examine for the purpose of forming an opinion or coming to a conclusion; to estimate deliberately and maturely; to balance. |
| verb (v. t.) To consider as worthy of notice; to regard. |
| verb (v. i.) To have weight; to be heavy. |
| verb (v. i.) To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance. |
| verb (v. i.) To bear heavily; to press hard. |
| verb (v. i.) To judge; to estimate. |
tail | noun (n.) Limitation; abridgment. |
| noun (n.) The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage of an animal. |
| noun (n.) Any long, flexible terminal appendage; whatever resembles, in shape or position, the tail of an animal, as a catkin. |
| noun (n.) Hence, the back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything, -- as opposed to the head, or the superior part. |
| noun (n.) A train or company of attendants; a retinue. |
| noun (n.) The side of a coin opposite to that which bears the head, effigy, or date; the reverse; -- rarely used except in the expression "heads or tails," employed when a coin is thrown up for the purpose of deciding some point by its fall. |
| noun (n.) The distal tendon of a muscle. |
| noun (n.) A downy or feathery appendage to certain achenes. It is formed of the permanent elongated style. |
| noun (n.) A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; -- called also tailing. |
| noun (n.) One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times. |
| noun (n.) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything. |
| noun (n.) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem. |
| noun (n.) Same as Tailing, 4. |
| noun (n.) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part, as a slate or tile. |
| noun (n.) See Tailing, n., 5. |
| noun (n.) In some forms of rope-laying machine, pieces of rope attached to the iron bar passing through the grooven wooden top containing the strands, for wrapping around the rope to be laid. |
| noun (n.) A tailed coat; a tail coat. |
| noun (n.) In flying machines, a plane or group of planes used at the rear to confer stability. |
| adjective (a.) Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed; as, estate tail. |
| verb (v. t.) To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded. |
| verb (v. t.) To pull or draw by the tail. |
| verb (v. i.) To hold by the end; -- said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; -- with in or into. |
| verb (v. i.) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; -- said of a vessel at anchor; as, this vessel tails down stream. |
tailing | noun (n.) The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall. |
| noun (n.) Same as Tail, n., 8 (a). |
| noun (n.) Sexual intercourse. |
| noun (n.) The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed threshing and winnowing; chaff. |
| noun (n.) The refuse part of stamped ore, thrown behind the tail of the buddle or washing apparatus. It is dressed over again to secure whatever metal may exist in it. Called also tails. |
| noun (n.) A prolongation of current in a telegraph line, due to capacity in the line and causing signals to run together. |
tailpiece | noun (n.) A piece at the end; an appendage. |
| noun (n.) One of the timbers which tail into a header, in floor framing. See Illust. of Header. |
| noun (n.) An ornament placed at the bottom of a short page to fill up the space, or at the end of a book. |
| noun (n.) A piece of ebony or other material attached to the lower end of a violin or similar instrument, to which the strings are fastened. |
| noun (n.) A piece for transmitting motion from the hub of a lock to the latch bolt. |
| noun (n.) The part of a telescope containing the adjusting device for the eyepiece, etc. |
taint | noun (n.) A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect. |
| noun (n.) An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner. |
| noun (n.) Tincture; hue; color; tinge. |
| noun (n.) Infection; corruption; deprivation. |
| noun (n.) A blemish on reputation; stain; spot; disgrace. |
| verb (v. i.) To thrust ineffectually with a lance. |
| verb (v. t.) To injure, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner. |
| verb (v. t.) To hit or touch lightly, in tilting. |
| verb (v. t.) To imbue or impregnate with something extraneous, especially with something odious, noxious, or poisonous; hence, to corrupt; to infect; to poison; as, putrid substance taint the air. |
| verb (v. t.) Fig.: To stain; to sully; to tarnish. |
| verb (v. i.) To be infected or corrupted; to be touched with something corrupting. |
| verb (v. i.) To be affected with incipient putrefaction; as, meat soon taints in warm weather. |
| verb (v. t.) Aphetic form of Attaint. |